MX-19 RC1 Feedback thread

[SkOrPn]

So far so good with RC1,

However, the first real annoying issue I have come across is that Thunar in MX19 RC1 is NOT letting me select my ftp user on the Server. It allows me to simply go into my servers shared folders etc, but I do not have write permissions. On MX18.3 I would get a popup asking me for my user name and password. The server is a windows 2016 server OS and the ftp program installed on it is FileZilla ftp server. On MX18.3 I got the full gigabit speeds both ways usinf ftp, but on MX19 I am getting 11.2 MB/s, lol that sucks and its only read permissions. So I assume I have to sign in somehow? How do I force Thunar on MX19 to give me the user/password popup in order to properly access my server? Help please!

EDIT: OK, MX 19 RC1 was set to 100 Mbps Full duplex in the Network configuration app. I changed it to 1 Gb/s and did a test and its still running at 11.2 MB/s. Not sure if I have to reboot or not to get the full network speed.

Obviously not a hardware issue, but here is the quick info anyway. EDIT: LOL, It was a hardware issue, had to reboot the network router. Go figure...

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System:    Host: SkOrPn-PC Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-6-amd64 
           root=UUID=70a61f9a-2aac-4b10-92ee-c29deae87a28 ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-19RC1_x64 patito feo October 15  2019 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: AB350 Pro4 serial: <filter> 
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: P5.80 date: 06/14/2019 
Battery:   Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech K800 serial: <filter> 
           charge: 70% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Full 
           Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Performance MX serial: <filter> 
           charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ 
           family: 17 (23) model-id: 8 stepping: 2 microcode: 800820C L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 86226 
           Speed: 1885 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1885 
           2: 2041 3: 2192 4: 2192 5: 2134 6: 1900 7: 2188 8: 2192 9: 2048 10: 2081 11: 2114 
           12: 1927 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 
           mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Hawaii PRO [Radeon R9 290/390] vendor: PC Partner Limited 
           driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 0a:00.0 chip ID: 1002:67b1 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: radeon resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD HAWAII (DRM 2.50.0 4.19.0-6-amd64 LLVM 7.0.1) 
           v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD Hawaii HDMI Audio [Radeon R9 290/290X / 390/390X] 
           vendor: PC Partner Limited driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 0a:00.1 
           chip ID: 1002:aac8 
           Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 0c:00.3 chip ID: 1022:1457 
           Device-3: Logitech G35 Headset type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid 
           bus ID: 1-10.7.3:7 chip ID: 046d:0a15 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-6-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASRock 
           driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 09:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 625.97 GiB used: 242.61 GiB (38.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVPW256HEGL-000H1 size: 238.47 GiB 
           block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> 
           rev: CXZ73H0Q scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD1600HLFS-75G6U1 size: 149.01 GiB 
           block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 10000 rpm 
           serial: <filter> rev: 4V03 scheme: MBR 
           ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 840 PRO Series size: 119.24 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 6B0Q scheme: MBR 
           ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Samsung model: SSD 840 PRO Series size: 119.24 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 6B0Q scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 90.33 GiB size: 88.41 GiB (97.88%) used: 17.04 GiB (19.3%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 46 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/buster buster main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ buster main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth-pro.list 
           1: deb http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/megasync.list 
           1: deb https://mega.nz/linux/MEGAsync/Debian_10.0/ ./
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list 
           1: deb http://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable main
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 316 Uptime: 13h 16m Memory: 15.66 GiB used: 2.69 GiB (17.2%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 
           Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

[fehlix]

How do I force Thunar on MX19 to give me the user/password popup in order to properly access my server?

I do use within Thunar
ftp://ftpusername@ftpserver

ftp-ftpuser-ftpserver.png

and get an authentication pup-up:

ftp-thunar-authenticate.png

[SkOrPn]

OK, thank you fehlix, but that didn't work either. I still did not get the popup, it just instantly threw me into my server folders with read only permissions. So my guess backing up and restoring my /home from 18.3 to 19 RC1 has helped me to break something. I can't even get it to run at full gigabit speeds, it keeps changing back to 100 Mbps, instead of the 1000 Mbps I was getting.

Dang, I was hoping that RC1 was good enough for daily driver use but I was not expecting to have to fix stuff. My bad...

[winemaker]

i would sya - give them a chance t come up with a fix or get you goinf. i had an issue which was debian related and they fixed it within a few hrs. and that wasn't even their ( the devs - fault.) i have been running these 2 laptops for almost 20 and 24 hrs respectively and all is well. i was helped with info for a tweak too - other than that - it is sweet. you also knew it was rc so that was your call. i was interested and then a bit reluctant and finally jumped in based on what i see with MX and the team here. they are working hard tweaking the final little things.


p.s. I am glad I did 19rc1

[davemx]

I can't get libpng12-0 to install.

Console output:
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Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
zlib1g:i386
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libpng12-0
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/173 kB of archives.
After this operation, 294 kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 290297 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libpng12-0_1.2.50-2+deb8u3.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libpng12-0:amd64 (1.2.50-2+deb8u3.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libpng12-0_1.2.50-2+deb8u3.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
unable to install new version of '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0': No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libpng12-0_1.2.50-2+deb8u3.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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I need it for SP_Flash_Tool, a program used to root Mediatek-based phones.

[SkOrPn]

Woohoo, got er fixed already. It wasn't a MX 19 bug, it was apparently my network. I updated the Server, rebooted it and then ran over to my Asus router and power cycled it just in case. A few days back we had a 2 second power outage, so that made me suspect a issue with the network or server. Waited for the network to come online and tried Thunar again, and sure enough it gave me the user popup, I filled in the password and the files are transferring at full Gigabit speeds. That kinda stressed me out there, but I'm good now. Love that I didn't have to go messing around with settings, eth0 drivers or kernels.

On a side note, I can't wait for Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS with ZFS. I'm going to dump this windows server like a bad habit for sure. Just got to find a Linux replacement for the incredibly wonderful StableBit DrivePool software I use on Windows Server. If I can do that Windows is GONE forever. Lol

[winemaker]

glad you got it working. debian for server. go to the source. instead of ubuntu. my thoughts.

[Jerry3904]

#davemx: maybe try switching repos? Does it show in you run

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apt policy libpng

[davemx]

root@localhost:/home/davemx# apt policy libpng
libpng:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:

I changed the MX-Linux source from an American to a British one. No change.

Is it not from the Debian repo? Can I change that?

I tried deleting the downloaded libpng12-0 from the cache just in case the one there was broken, so it would have to download again. No change.

[dolphin_oracle]

where did you get libpng12-0? that package is not in the debian repo.

libpng16-16 is in buster.